ML111890373

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Radiation Protection Inspection - North Anna Power Station
ML111890373
Person / Time
Site: North Anna  
Issue date: 07/07/2011
From: Brian Bonser
NRC/RGN-II/DRS/PSB1
To: Heacock D
Virginia Electric & Power Co (VEPCO)
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 July 7, 2011 Mr. David A. Heacock President and Chief Nuclear Officer Virginia Electric and Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711

SUBJECT:

RADIATION PROTECTION INSPECTION - NORTH ANNA POWER STATION

Dear Mr. Heacock:

On July 25-29, 2011, the NRC will perform a baseline Radiation Safety Inspection at North Anna Power Station, (NRC Inspection Procedures 71124.01, 71124.04, 71124.06, 71124.07, 71124.08, and Radiation Safety Sections of 71151). Experience has shown that this inspection is resource intensive for both the NRC inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize the impact to your on-site resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for documents needed for this activity. The NRC requests that these documents be provided to the inspectors no later than July 18, 2011.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Jay Leberstein of your organization. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector, Ruben Hamilton, at (404) 997-4672 or the Plant Support Branch 1 Chief, Brian Bonser, at (404) 997-4653.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC web site at http://www.nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Brian R. Bonser, Chief Plant Support Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket No.: 50-338, 50-339 License No.: NPF-4, NPF-7

Enclosure:

Document Request List cc w/encl.: (See page 2)

ML111890373 X SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE X FORM 665 ATTACHED OFFICE RII: DRS RII: DRS SIGNATURE RA RA NAME R. HAMILTON B. BONSER DATE 07/07/2011 07/07/2011 E-MAIL COPY?

YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO

VEPCO 2

cc w/encl:

Daniel G. Stoddard Senior Vice President Nuclear Operations Virginia Electric and Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution Fred Mladen Director, Station Safety & Licensing Virginia Electric and Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution N. L. Lane Site Vice President North Anna Power Station Virginia Electric & Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution Chris L. Funderburk Director, Nuclear Licensing & Operations Support Virginia Electric and Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution Lillian M. Cuoco, Esq.

Senior Counsel Dominion Resources Services, Inc.

Electronic Mail Distribution Executive Vice President Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Electronic Mail Distribution Ginger L. Melton Virginia Electric and Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution Attorney General Supreme Court Building 900 East Main Street Richmond, VA 23219 Senior Resident Inspector North Anna Power Station U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O. Box 490 Mineral, VA 23117 Michael M. Cline Director Virginia Department of Emergency Services Management Electronic Mail Distribution County Administrator Louisa County P.O. Box 160 Louisa, VA 23093 Michael Crist Plant Manager North Anna Power Station Virginia Electric & Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution

Enclosure Document Request List Inspection Dates:

July 25-29, 2011 Inspection Procedures:

IP 71124.01 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls IP 71124.04 Occupational Dose Assessment IP 71124.06 Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment IP 71124.07 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program IP 71124.08 Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification Note: The current version of these documents is expected unless specified otherwise.

Electronic media is preferred if readily available (The preferred file format is Word, or searchable.pdf files on CDROM). Note that the inspectors cannot accept data provided on USB or flash drives due to NRC IT security policies. Please organize the information as it is arranged below to the extent possible. Experience has shown that a poorly organized CD leads to a less efficient inspection and places additional burden on licensee staff. If there are questions regarding the documents requested, please do not hesitate to contact the lead inspector.

General Information Request

1. Plant Management, Radiation Protection, and Chemistry organizational charts w/ contact numbers.
2. Electronic copy of relevant UFSAR chapters (e.g. site description, radwaste program, and radiation protection).
3. Corrective Action Program procedures.
4. Procedures for gathering and reporting NRC Performance Indicator data.

71124.01 - Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls

1. List of active RWPs.
2. Latest survey of all Locked HRAs and VHRAs (as applicable).
3. Latest survey of ISFSI areas.
4. Procedures related to HP controls (e.g. Posting, labeling, surveys, RWPs, contamination control, HRA/LHRA/VHRA control, key control, control of divers, special controls during fuel offload, hot spots, etc.).

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5. Procedures related to release of personnel and materials (e.g. release surveys, decontamination, guidance for alarm follow up, etc.).
6. List of Nationally Tracked Sources and any change-of-ownership transactions.
7. List of all non-fuel items stored in spent fuel pool.
8. All self-assessments and audits covering HP controls since January 2010.
9. LIST of CRs related to HP controls where the cause was listed as human performance (radworker error) or human performance (HP technician error) issued since January 2010.

This should be a list of corrective action documents containing an CR number and brief description, not full CRs.

10. All CRs related to Nationally Tracked Sources since January 1, 2010.

71124.04 - Occupational Dose Assessment

1. Procedures related to occupational dose assessment (e.g. external dose monitoring, dosimetry issuance and use, guidance for multi-badging, personnel contamination events, storage/care of personal dosimeters, use of electronic dosimeters, in-vivo and in-vitro internal dose assessment, QC for whole body counter, use of passive monitoring if applicable, declared pregnant workers).
2. NVLAP accreditation documentation for current dosimetry used by site.
3. LIST of all positive whole body counts, in vitro, or air-sampling analyses which resulted in an assigned CEDE equal to or exceeding 10 millirem since January 2010. [Note: only a listing should be provided for use by the inspectors to select a sample of issues for in-depth review during the onsite inspection].
4. List of all personnel contamination events identified since January 2010. [Note: only a listing should be provided for use by the inspectors to select a sample of issues for in-depth review during the onsite inspection].
5. All audits and self-assessments of the dosimetry program (including audits of the lab that processes site dosimetry) since January 2010.
6. LIST of CRs generated since January 2010, for internal or external dosimetry issues/events.

This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CR number and brief description, not full CRs.

71124.06 - Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment

1. 2009, and 2010 Annual Radioactive Effluent Reports.
2. Offsite Dose Calculation Manual (ODCM) and a list of changes made since the last revision.
3. Procedures/Guidance Documents for:
a. collection, analysis, release and dose evaluations for gaseous and liquid effluents
b. groundwater monitoring program

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c. determination of rad monitor set-points for main plant gaseous and liquid effluent discharge pathways.
4. List of changes made to radioactive effluent processing systems since January 2010.
5. List of any non-radioactive systems that have become contaminated since January 2010.
6. List of any unmonitored, unplanned, or otherwise abnormal gaseous or liquid releases since January 2010.
7. List of 10 CFR 50.75(g) entries made since January 2010.
8. List of liquid and gaseous effluent monitors listed as out-of-service (OOS) since January 2010.
9. Groundwater monitoring results since January 2010.
10. Inter-laboratory comparison program results (for onsite count lab) since January 2010.
11. Results of last 2 filtration system (HEPA/Charcoal) surveillances for gaseous effluent pathways.
12. All audits, self-assessments, and/or reviews of the radioactive effluent monitoring program since January 2010. Include any reviews conducted of vendor activities and their facilities, as applicable.
13. List of CRs generated since January 2010, because of gaseous and liquid effluent processing and/or ODCM related activities. This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CR number and brief description, not full CRs.

71124.07 - Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program (REMP)

1. 2009, and 2010 Annual Radiological Environmental Operating Reports.
2. Procedures/Guidance Documents for:
a. collection and analysis of environmental samples
b. calibration and maintenance of REMP air and/or water samplers
c. calibration of meteorological monitoring instruments (wind speed & direction, air temperature, etc.)
d. periodic meteorological instrumentation surveillance requirements.
3. Calibration records for REMP air and water sampling equipment (as applicable) since January 2010.
4. Last 2 calibration records for each meteorological monitoring instrument on the primary tower (wind speed & direction and air temperature).
5. Inter-laboratory comparison program results (environmental lab) since January 2010.

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6. Copies of all audits, self-assessments, and/or reviews of REMP activities. The data should include any reviews conducted of vendor activities and their facilities (e.g. environmental lab).
7. List of systems, structures, or components (SSCs), identified as credible mechanism(s) having the potential for release of licensed material to the groundwater environs.
8. List of changes to the REMP (sample locations, sample frequency, type of samples, etc.)

since January 2010.

9. List of CRs generated as a result of REMP activities since July 2010. This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CR number and brief description, not full CRs.

71124.08: Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation

1. Site and corporate procedures/manuals describing licensee compliance with 10 CFR Parts 20, 61, and 71, and 49 CFR Parts 170-189. Procedures/manuals should include:
a. Solid and liquid radwaste processing procedures
b. Procedure(s) for transferring radioactive waste resin and sludge discharges into shipping/disposal containers
c. Waste stream mixing and/or sampling procedures, including (1) waste concentration averaging, (2) use of scaling factors and calculations used to account for difficult-to-measure radionuclides, and (3) ensuring waste stream composition data accounts for changing operational parameters
d. Shipping/transportation procedures
e. Cask loading and closure procedures (licensee and vendor) applicable to last three cask transports
f. Process Control Program (PCP).
2. Most recent Annual Radioactive Effluents Release Report.
3. Most recent radio-chemical sample analysis results (i.e., 10 CFR Part 61" analysis) for each of the radioactive waste streams (e.g., dry active waste (DAW), ion exchange resins, mechanical filters, and sludges and activated materials, etc.).
4. List and documentation of any changes made to the radioactive waste processing systems (liquid and solid) and/or the PCP since the last inspection and associated 10 CFR Part 50.59 documentation as appropriate.
5. Copies of applicable transport cask Certificate of Compliance for the last three transport cask shipments.
6. Training and qualification records for personnel responsible for radioactive waste processing and radioactive material shipment preparation activities.
7. Copy of the Radioactive Shipping Log for the last 12 months (The inspector will select transportation shipping packages for review during the inspection).
8. List of corrective action reports generated since the last inspection involving radioactive waste and radioactive material/waste transportation.

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9. Available for onsite review during the inspection:
a. Site drawing(s) showing the location of all stored radioactive materials and all stored radioactive waste
b. Plant drawings sufficient to permit the inspector to walk-down the liquid and solid radioactive waste processing systems to verify current system configuration/operation agree with the descriptions contained in the UFSAR and in the PCP
c. Documentation describing the status of any radioactive waste process equipment that is not operational and/or is abandoned in place
d. Information concerning the sites waste disposal volume and waste reduction program
e. Training curriculum and primary lesson plans for qualifying persons, including vendors, for radwaste processing, packaging, and making shipments of radioactive materials and radioactive waste as specified by 49 CFR 172.

71151: Performance Indicator (PI) Verification

1. Monthly PI reports since January 1, 2010, and copies of associated condition reports for any RETS/ODCM Radiological Effluent occurrences.
2. Liquid and gaseous effluent release permits which specify the monthly, quarterly, and annual curies released by isotope and associated public dose assessments since January 1, 2010.
3. List of all corrective action documents since January 1, 2010, using keywords such as HRA, LHRA, VHRA, unintended dose, unlocked door, etc.
4. List of all electronic dosimeter (ED) dose rate alarms > 1 R/hr and all ED dose alarms since March 2010.